Nationally Syndicated Editorial Cartoonist
Sometimes when I create a post on Facebook, the algorithms or whatever will read the hashtags, and if it's something that can be associated with charity, Facebook will ask me if I want to create a fundraiser. So if you hashtag a hurricane, COVID, women's rights, Black Lives Matter, etc, it will ask if you... Continue Reading →
Ted Cruz went to Harvard and Princeton. He was a debate champion. With that in mind, I'm not ready to classify him as a moron despite the fact he says moronic things. While I'm not sure he's a moron, stupid, or an idiot, I know for sure he's a lot of other things. Ted Cruz... Continue Reading →
I broke one of my rules for this cartoon. I'm not big on holiday cartoons to begin with and since I'm a freelancer, I don't have to draw them now. Back when I worked at The Free Lance-Star, my editor demanded a cartoon for every Memorial and Veterans Day along with most other holidays. I... Continue Reading →
I only drew five roughs for CNN the week before last and I could have stopped at three. I drew two on Thursday, May 19. I drew three the next morning on Friday. I sent the first to Jane, my editor last week, and while I was uploading the next two into an email, Jane... Continue Reading →
I promised a few friends and cartooning colleagues I would get around to creating a post of my RFK award-winning entry. I still feel weird saying that. Each editorial cartoon contest requires a certain number of cartoons in an entree. The Pulitzer, Herblock, and RFK each require 15 cartoons. All the rest require less. It's... Continue Reading →
Republicans who label themselves as "constitutionalists" really only cling to one of the 27 (ratified) constitutional amendments. Of course, that is the second, the right to bear arms. The Second Amendment states: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall... Continue Reading →
A friend of mine who writes about cartoons and the issues they cover said everyone should basically hold their comments until we have certainty over what happened during the 90 minutes Texas police gave the Uvalde gunman free range to shoot elementary students. My friend wrote, "facts change." Facts don't change. What changes is what... Continue Reading →
While drawing this cartoon, I was afraid Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Texas Governor Greg Abbott would pull out of speaking at this weekend's NRA convention in Houston, because it would be the right thing to do after a mass shooting with an assault rifle killed 19 children in their state. But fortunately, at least... Continue Reading →
What are the odds that on the same day I receive a journalism award from a human rights organization, the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization, for a cartoon on school shootings that's there's another school shooting? In this country where politicians refuse to do anything to stop mass shootings and end the easy accessibility... Continue Reading →
This is for those whose only way of learning this is from reading the blog. I'm the winner of the 2022 RFK Journalism Award in Editorial Cartooning. Here's the snip of the announcement of my award. The rest of the ceremony is on YouTube. https://youtu.be/qrHmc1mbRGw
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